found_drama

• Formula Found to Explain Earth’s Evenly Spaced Valleys
  at Yahoo! News (via JH)
  (tagged: via:kapowee math science geology todo )
• The Heidi Klum of calculations
  at The Boston Globe
  (tagged: via:kapowee math science humor todo essay )
• recovering lazyholic blog: phrase reduction
  via JH:
  

  I find it interesting that we are able to understand a message or meaning from a phrase that should not be taken literally.

  (tagged: via:kapowee reading literature language research )
• How to Read Infinite Jest
  Keeping flagged for when I re-read (again? so soon?) within the next year or so.
  (tagged: via:fogus InfiniteJest reading literature todo )
• The Relentless Eye:
 Global Cell Phone Photography 2009
  via 7Days
  (tagged: art photography todo )
• Brittney Gilbert: You Have Chosen To Be In Here
  at Infinite Summer (via PL)
  (tagged: InfiniteJest DFW literature reading essay todo )
• Notes on a Dual-Mode Airport Extreme Network
  at Luo.ma (via DF): useful stuff (and well-written); my favorite bit:
  

  Which means I was getting very little of the 802.11n-goodness. When I was growing up, “Does Not Work Up To His Potential” was the most devastating of all report-card notes. You could be forgiven for not getting an “A” but you had to at least put in the effort.

  (tagged: Mac OSX todo Apple hardware network AirPort router wifi howto )

A brief interlude while we continue to wait for our home Interweb connection…

• Download Every Single BBC Radio1 Essential Mix From 1993 To 2007
  (tagged: bbc music mp3 house mixes )
• Pre- and Post-Workout Meals in 15 Minutes
  at Active.com
  (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe fitness exercise )
• Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter available, HDCP compliant
  at Ars Technica
  (tagged: Apple Mac wishlist displayport hdmi hometheater )
• Fiction’s Dirty Little Secret
  at Infinite Summer (via kapowee):
  

  …and a writer has to recognize that each person who reads his novel reads a different book. Readers bring their intellect to the page just as the author does and each reader brings different knowledge and experience and history and bias. Each reader understands the book a bit differently. Each reader asks the novel different questions, and as a result each reader gets different answers, which explains why you are crazy for Confederacy of Dunces and your otherwise extremely intelligent attorney wife thinks you’re an idiot for laughing at it.

  (tagged: via:kapowee literature reading writing essay todo )
• Encasing a child’s art project in lucite,
  at Ask Metafilter
  (tagged: lucite art todo )

For my regular readers^[1] that may be wondering why I haven’t been posting lately^[2], a brief update:

Two big factors keeping me away from F_D:  (1) no Internets at home still^[3] and (2) some super-intense work projects have me tapped out.

That said, please enjoy a picture of H. riding a dinosaur:

1. Hello all six of you? [↩]
2. And I’m wondering why you don’t just follow me on Twitter? [↩]
3. Though Dig Safe was just through marking the safe digging sites for the Comcast contractor. [↩]

classic time wasters
“what plagiarism looks like” (Meehan)
alien puppy

“Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, I do need to follow the rules.

April through June: gone as quick as they came. Shall we check in on the goals I set for myself? I think we shall.

1. Write at least three hours per week. To echo my sentiments from last quarter: not a banner year. I have hardly scratched out a few incoherent words let alone incoherent sentences.  The long litany of excuses only grows but the conclusion remains the same:  I am not forcing myself to sit down and do this.  But maybe the fact that the word “force” even enters the equation is proof enough that ’09 is not “my” year?  We shall see.  If ’07 is any indication of how a year can swing around dramatically…
   
2. Read 36 new books during 2009. Still a bit behind the target pace but picking up steam:
   
   Tracking the ’09 reading list on Goodreads.com with the  ”2009” tag/bookshelf^[1].  Also exciting is that I’ve read most of the books from my specific hit list for the year:
   
   Remaining on that list:  An Obedient Father, Dhalgren, Foucault’s Pendulum, Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks), and Nights at the Circus^[2].
3. Walk at least 10 miles every week. I have on and off days…
   
   …though apparently most off days^[3]?  And now that we’re moving out to Essex, I fear this may drop a bit more.
4. Climb at least once each week. Doing just fine here, thanks:
   
5. Finish up my Ortho theme for WordPress. Been done.
6. Get outside more often. Uh…?  It’s Spring/Summer time now.  Thanks for asking.  See you out there…

At the year’s half-way mark, where shall we say I have landed?

1. Mind your step though.  It’s a bit clutted with kids books that don’t really count. [↩]
2. These links head out to Amazon.com Affiliate links, BTW.  In case you wanted to help a guy out. [↩]
3. Note: technically speaking, I made this graph with a few days to spare left in June.  So I might still have eeked out just enough mileage?  The Q3 round-up should have some more official numbers. [↩]